Providing 'hsdis' binaries not possible because of GPLv2/GPLv3 license clash

[Volker Simonis]

Chris has pointed out a real problem of the current project: it is not
possible to provide binaries of a part of the project (i.e. 'hsdis')
because of licensing issues. This considerably reduces the usefulness
of the whole 'hsdis' tool.

I think it is naturally to ask how this can be fixed on one of the
project mailing lists. And I think it should be naturally that the
project owner should at least try to fix such problems.

Personally I'd prefer to discuss this with a wider audience rather
then offline. After all this is a valid question about how to
reasonably evolve the project such that it stays relevant and useful.

I've therefore reposted a summary of this request to the discuss
mailing list (with you on CC).

@Chris: reimplementing  the hsdis functionality is probably the most
pragmatic solution but I'd rather like to avoid code duplication here
to avoid problems with different incompatible version in the future.

Regards,
Volker


On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Martijn Verburg
<martijnverburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Right,
>
> I don't think it's unreasonable for people to come here for advice but I
> can understand why as Non Lawyers we can't offer anything which is concrete
> or binding. FYI - we've taken this conversation offline to try and come up
> with a resolution.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
> On 28 May 2015 at 12:42, Chris Newland <cnewland at chrisnewland.com> wrote:
>
>> "To promote and support community involvement in the development, adoption
>> and evangelism of OpenJDK projects" ...
>>
>> Volker's post has given me a good pointer and the hsdis wrapper looks
>> pretty simple so perhaps I'll just write a replacement under the same
>> license as binutils and distribute the binaries from my own hosting.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2015 11:06, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>> > So the answer is "Go speak to your lawyer".
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Martijn
>> >
>> >
>> > On 28 May 2015 at 10:18, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> To me, asking for legal advice on the Internet seems a lot like asking
>> >> for wisdom tooth removal surgery at a pub.
>> >>
>> >> cheers, dalibor topic
>> >>
>> >> On 28.05.2015 10:24, Martijn Verburg wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Hi Dalibor,
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> For the sake of the readers of this list, where *should* you go for
>> >>> legal questions?
>> >>>
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